Poster of the Statement and Purpose of the Olympic Project for Human Rights: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster of the Statement and Purpose of the Olympic Project for Human Rights: Date: January 19, 1968; printed later. Printed by: Unidentified. Written by: Olympic Project for Human Rights, American, 1967 - 1968.
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster of the Statement of Purposes and Goals of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). The poster is white paper with black ink. The top of the poster has the title: [Olympic Project For Human Rights / Statement of Purposes and Goals*]. Under the title, the poster lists the OPHR committee. The committee list is followed by the purpose statement and a list of the goals ranging from one to four. The aims to explain why the OPHR is proposing a boycott of the 1968 Olympics by African American athletes. The bottom right hand corner contains the signature of Harry Edwards, the Chairman of the OPHR committee and author of the document. The back of the poster is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: January 19, 1968; printed later
- Printed by: Unidentified
- Written by: Olympic Project for Human Rights, American, 1967 - 1968
- Signed by: Harry Edwards, American, born 1942
- Subject of: Harry Edwards, American, born 1942
- Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Subject of: Louis E. Lomax, American, 1922 - 1970
- Subject of: Floyd McKissick, American, 1922 - 1991
- Subject of: Kenneth Noel
- Type: posters
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 36 1/16 × 23 15/16 in. (91.6 × 60.8 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Athletes
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Olympics
- Topic: Sports
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2016.66.11
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Gift of Dr. Harry Edwards
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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